Tobacco Control

Papers
(The TQCC of Tobacco Control is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tobacco product flavour policies in the USA247
Online retailer noncompliance to e-cigarette excise tax and tobacco licensing laws75
Increase of unmotivated and hardened smokers in Hong Kong: a repeated cross-sectional trend analysis68
Retraction: Identification of volatile constituents released from IQOS heat-not-burn tobacco HeatSticks using a direct sampling method63
Smoking cessation: health system challenges and opportunities63
Trends in use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes among young adults who had smoked in adolescence: 2017–202259
Cessation and knowledge-building messaging are associated with e-cigarette cessation intentions among youth and young adults in the USA54
How do clinicians address vaping in an illegal context? A qualitative Singapore study49
Impact of electronic cigarette and heated tobacco product on conventional smoking: an Italian prospective cohort study conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic47
Tobacco industry pricing strategies for single cigarettes and multistick packs after excise tax increases in Colombia47
Understanding e-cigarette content and promotion on YouTube through machine learning46
Association between tobacco advertising policies, health warning mandates and adolescents’ exposure to tobacco advertising and warning labels in 80 countries46
Nicotine levels in flavoured hookah (waterpipe) tobacco products: discrepancies between labelled and measured levels44
Independent companies in the tobacco supply chain: transparency and environmental social governance42
Construction of a ‘civilised smoking environment’: a novel strategy undermining tobacco control efforts in China42
Youth-appealing features in popular e-cigarette brand advertising in the USA after heightened scrutiny in 201842
Tobacco industry in Mexico: a general equilibrium analysis41
Framing the policy debate over tobacco control legislation and tobacco taxation in South Africa40
Vaping in a heavily regulated setting: cross-sectional survey of e-cigarette use, perceptions and social media exposure40
Moving hearts and minds: how the Big Tobacco, Tiny Targets campaign builds support for tobacco control policy39
MRTP claim authorisation and General Snus sales in the USA: evidence from a difference-in-differences model38
Flavours, ingredients and flavour bans38
‘Proudly Canadian’ and ‘no Big Tobacco affiliation’: STLTH e-cigarette advertising and positioning in Canada37
Levels of menthol, nicotine and cooling agents measured in JUUL products purchased across a three-year period35
Flavour spectrum of the Puff family of disposable e-cigarettes35
E-cigarette use among early adolescent tobacco cigarette smokers: testing the disruption and entrenchment hypotheses in two longitudinal cohorts35
Addiction potential of combustible menthol cigarette alternatives: a randomised cross-over trial33
Longitudinal bidirectional association between youth electronic cigarette use and tobacco cigarette smoking initiation in Thailand33
Naturally leading: a content analysis of terms, themes and word associations in Natural American Spirit advertising, 2000–202032
Analysis of e-cigarette warning letters issued by the Food and Drug Administration in 2020 and 202132
Going ‘Super Value’ in New Zealand: cigarette pricing strategies during a period of sustained annual excise tax increases31
Heavy metals in ENDS: a comparison of open versus closed systems purchased from the USA, England, Canada and Australia30
Quantifying and characterising tobacco content in the most in-demand streamed series in 10 low/middle-income countries in 201930
Industry response to strengthened regulations: amount and themes of flavoured electronic cigarette promotion by product vendors and manufacturers on Instagram30
Reflections on Indigenous commercial tobacco control: ‘The dolphins will always take us home’29
Impact of Canada’s menthol cigarette ban on quitting among menthol smokers: pooled analysis of pre–post evaluation from the ITC Project and the Ontario Menthol Ban Study and projections of impact in t28
Evaluation of a smoke-free beaches intervention in Barcelona: a quasi-experimental study28
What happens in Vegas, stays in your lungs: an assessment of fine particulate matter in casinos that prohibit and allow smoking in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA25
No smoking gun: tobacco taxation and smuggling in Sierra Leone25
IQOS and cigarette advertising across regulatory periods and population groups in Israel: a longitudinal analysis24
Towards tobacco-free retailers: feasibility of an intervention encouraging retailers to stop selling tobacco in Tasmania24
Tobacco imagery in popular films in China from 2001 to 2020: a declining trend24
National longitudinal tobacco product cessation rates among US adults from the PATH Study: 2013–2019 (waves 1–5)24
Tobacco companies’ creation of additional communication space: a content analysis of cigarette pack inserts and onserts24
Tobacco industry interference to undermine the development and implementation of graphic health warnings in Bangladesh23
On the impacts of higher tobacco taxes in Argentina: a computable general equilibrium approach23
Document analysis of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World’s scientific outputs and activities: a case study in contemporary tobacco industry agnogenesis23
Response of legal and illegal cigarette prices to a tax increase in Ethiopia23
Electronic cigarette use and cigarette smoking in vehicles among adults who use electronic cigarettes and cigarettes in the USA22
An advocacy-research collaboration model to inform evidence-based tobacco control efforts22
A battle of heated tobacco sales: transfer discount promotions in Japan22
Substitutability of menthol cigarette alternatives: a clinical trial21
Geographical differences in the financial impacts of different forms of tobacco licence fees on small retailers in Scotland20
Oral nicotine product marketing expenditures in the USA from 2016 to 2023: trends over time by brand and targeted media outlets20
Easy access: identification verification and shipping methods used by online vape shops20
Marketing ZYN: examining branded and unbranded content19
Towards health with justice: making the tobacco industry accountable through administrative liability19
Awareness and perceived behaviour changes following the New York state vaping flavour ban, 2021–202219
Low compliance and proliferation of IQOS purchase cues at points-of-sale: a comparative study before and after Israel’s display ban19
Economy-wide impact of a reduction in tobacco use in India18
Changing patterns of cigarette and ENDS transitions in the USA: a multistate transition analysis of adults in the PATH Study in 2017–2019 vs 2019–202118
Perspectives on limiting tobacco access and supporting access to nicotine vaping products among clients of residential drug and alcohol treatment services in Australia18
Five years of discourse related to Indonesia tobacco control reform: a content analysis of online media coverage18
How is heated tobacco product use described by people who use them daily?18
Worldwide news and comment17
Second-hand smoke surveillance and COVID-19: a missed opportunity17
Bitter taste of the tobacco industry interference in Brazil16
Interpreting results, impacts and implications from WHO FCTC tobacco control investment cases in 21 low-income and middle-income countries16
E-cigarette manufacturers’ compliance with clinical trial reporting expectations: a case series of registered trials by Juul Labs16
Hookah Battle: the global sponsoring and brand marketing of smoking competitions16
Tobacco Control: a finite project with the end on the horizon16
Tactics of the tobacco industry in an Arab nation: a review of tobacco documents in Oman16
Nitrosamine and nicotine exposure after switching from filtered to unfiltered cigarette smoking: a cross-over clinical trial16
Exposure of 4-year to 24-year olds to tobacco imagery on prime-time Chilean television16
From Perth to Wellington: a 30-year journey15
Assessing the solutions to tobacco control’s funding gap problem15
The changing tobacco epidemic15
NRT use as a vaping cessation aid among youth and young adults15
Uncovering the advertising and promotional strategies of tobacco companies in Cambodia: recall of below-the-line marketing among young male smokers15
Exposing the vectors14
Economic costs of tobacco-related diseases in Hong Kong in 202114
Cheaper tobacco product prices at US Air Force Bases compared with surrounding community areas, 201914
Association between e-cigarette use and food insecurity among low-income adults14
Level of compliance to smoke-free laws by restaurants in Karachi: an observational study14
Demand for tobacco products in Bangladesh14
Circumventing tobacco control and safety policies to promote waterpipe use in smoking venues: the perspective of staff in waterpipe smoking venues14
Analysis of wedding appeals on cigarette packs in China13
Promoting corporate image or preventing underage use? Analysis of the advertising strategy and expenditures of the JUUL parent education for youth vaping prevention campaign13
Standardised cigarettes: the next step for tobacco policy?13
Where to next for countries with high tobacco taxes? The potential for greater control of tobacco pricing through licensing regulation13
Impact of flavours, device, nicotine levels and price on adult e-cigarette users’ tobacco and nicotine product choices13
Follow the money: a closer look at US tobacco industry marketing expenditures13
Secondhand smoke exposure and oral cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis13
COVID-19 and a temporary ban on tobacco sales in South Africa: impact on smoking cessation13
Plant-based menthol cigarettes? Food industry trends and farm-to-pack cigarette advertising12
Underutilisation of no-tobacco-sale orders against retailers that repeatedly sell to minors, 2015–2019, USA12
Own-price and cross-price elasticities of demand for cigarettes and waterpipe tobacco in three Eastern Mediterranean countries: a volumetric choice experiment12
Responses to reduced nicotine cigarette marketing features: a systematic review12
Correction:Did Philip Morris International use the e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI) outbreak to market IQOS heated tobacco?12
Effect of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette and cigarette retail prices and sales, USA, 2014–201912
Short-term dollars at what cost? Repealing New Zealand’s Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 plan would sacrifice lives and longer-term economic gain12
Randomised experiment for the effect of ‘Tobacco-Free Nicotine’ messaging on current e-cigarette users’ perceptions, preferences and intentions12
Awareness of tobacco industry tactics among tobacco control communities in Thailand and its association with attitudes towards tobacco industry and perceptions of e-cigarettes12
Association between the implementation of standardised tobacco packaging legislation and illicit tobacco and cross-border purchasing in England: a time-series analysis between 2012 and 202012
Correction: Thoughts on neologisms and pleonasm in scientific discourse and tobacco control12
Representation of commercial and traditional tobacco on social media: deconstructing historical narratives to address the Indigenous youth tobacco epidemic12
Themes in e-liquid concept names as a marketing tactic: evidence from Premarket Tobacco Product Applications in the USA12
Effect of a hypothetical modified risk tobacco product claim on heated tobacco product use intention and perceptions in young adults12
E-commerce licensing loopholes: a case study of online shopping for tobacco products following a statewide sales restriction on flavoured tobacco in California12
Restricting supply of tobacco products to pharmacies: a scoping review12
Valuing indigenous wisdom: invited comment12
Protecting children from second-hand tobacco smoke in the home: the need for a new approach12
Tobacco control in Asia-Pacific: wins, challenges and targets11
Making smoking history: temporal changes in support for a future smoking ban and increasing taxes in the general population of Denmark11
Tobacco retail availability and cigarette and e-cigarette use among youth and adults: a scoping review11
Affordability of cigarettes in ten Southeastern European countries between 2008 and 201911
Global tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship regulation: what’s old, what’s new and where to next?11
Nicotine pouch product awareness, interest and ever use among US adults who smoke, 202111
Effects of menthol use and transitions in use on short-term and long-term cessation from cigarettes among US smokers11
California’s tobacco 21 minimum sales age law and adolescents’ tobacco and nicotine use: differential associations among racial and ethnic groups11
Limiting tobacco accessibility by transitioning tobacco sales to state alcohol stores: estimated increases in travel time and changes in associated disparities11
Consequences of a match made in hell: the harm caused by menthol smoking to the African American population over 1980–201811
Ex ante evaluation of the impact of tobacco control policy measures aimed at the point of sale in the Netherlands11
Effect of electronic cigarette atomising power and flavour on aerosol size-segregated metal concentration and inhalation risk10
Flavour chemicals, synthetic coolants and pulegone in popular mint-flavoured and menthol-flavoured e-cigarettes10
Point-of-sale displays: a comparison of tobacco and vaping product retail strategies10
Crowding out and impoverishing effect of tobacco in Mexico10
Nicotine pouch marketing strategies in the USA: an analysis of Zyn, On! and Velo10
Still ‘Cool’: tobacco industry responds to state-wide menthol ban with synthetic coolants10
Acknowledgments10
Specialist vape store developments during the implementation of New Zealand’s Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 202010
How do prices of manufactured cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco affect demand for these products? Tobacco price elasticity in Western Balkan countries10
Effectiveness of e-cigarettes as aids for smoking cessation: evidence from the PATH Study cohort, 2017–201910
Patterns of poly tobacco use among adults in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study, 2013–2017: a multistate Markov transition analysis10
Tobacco package health warnings: a global success story10
Tobacco industry corporate social responsibility activities and other interference after ratification of a strong tobacco law in Ethiopia10
Advancing whole-of-government approaches to tobacco control: Article 5.3 and the challenge of policy coordination in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Uganda10
Future of tobacco marketing: the metaverse, NFTs and the next generation of the internet10
Health, economic and social burden of tobacco in Latin America and the expected gains of fully implementing taxes, plain packaging, advertising bans and smoke-free environments control measures: a mod10
Characteristics of users of French smoking cessation services from 2004 to 201810
Closing the gaps in tobacco endgame evidence: a scoping review10
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health10
Historical and political context for Philip Morris International’s continuing medical education courses on harm reduction9
Expanding synthetic nicotine commercial market: Aroma King’s ‘NoNic’ pouches and e-cigarettes9
Tobacco endgame intervention impacts on health gains and Māori:non-Māori health inequity: a simulation study of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Tobacco Action Plan9
Pilot randomised controlled trial of a culturally aligned smoking cessation app for American Indian persons9
Marketing for Sensa: a ‘zero nicotine vapor product’ from a major tobacco company9
Levels of nicotine and tobacco-specific nitrosamines in oral nicotine pouches9
Ethical publishing in ‘Indigenous’ contexts9
Cigarette filter ventilation, product appeal and regulatory options: a review of the influence of ventilation on consumers’ sensory and risk perceptions9
Cigarette prices and smoking among adults in eight sub-Saharan African countries: evidence from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey9
Tobacco endgame and priority populations: a scoping review9
Flavour capsule cigarette use and perceptions: a systematic review9
‘Flavour ban approved’: new marketing strategies from tobacco-free nicotine pouch maker Zyn9
Correction:Tobacco industry accountability for marine pollution: country and global estimates9
Generative AI in a new era of computer model-informed tobacco research: a short report9
Ambiguity around assessment of exposure to cigarette advertising: the need for an updated measure9
Correction:Reducing attractiveness of e-liquids: proposal for a restrictive list of tobacco-related flavourings9
Diffusion of smoke-free policies at outdoor sports clubs in the Netherlands9
Public support for policies to regulate flavoured tobacco and e-cigarette products in rural California9
Evolution of tobacco products: recent history and future directions9
Correction:Youth tobacco use before and after flavoured tobacco sales restrictions in Oakland, California and San Francisco, California9
Evolving methodology of national tobacco control investment cases8
Justice, disparities and the tobacco endgame8
Transitions to smokeless tobacco use among adult cigarette smokers in the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, Waves 3–5 (2015–2019)8
Effect of a minimum floor price law for tobacco products on tobacco sales in Oakland, California, USA: a synthetic difference-in-differences analysis8
‘Beyond nicotine’ marketing strategies: Big Tobacco diversification into the vaping and cannabis product sectors8
Differential price responses for tobacco consumption: implications for tax incidence8
Global policy scan of commercial combustible tobacco product retailing regulations by WHO region8
Analysis of cigar marketing expenditures by product category, placement strategy and geolocation in the USA, from 2017 to 20228
Youth and young adult flavour expectancies for new ‘non-menthol’ cigarettes introduced following California’s ban on flavoured tobacco products8
Over 1 year later: smokers’ EVALI awareness, knowledge and perceived impact on e-cigarette interest8
Cigarette unit sales volume for brands using ‘natural’, ‘organic’ and ‘tobacco and water’ pack terms in the USA, 2018–20228
Worldwide news and comment8
Evaluating the impact of plain packaging among Canadian smokers: findings from the 2018 and 2020 ITC Smoking and Vaping Surveys8
Tobacco tax evasion in Western Balkan countries: tax evasion prevalence and evasion determinants8
Effect of a ‘tobacco-free nicotine’ claim on intentions and perceptions of Puff Bar e-cigarette use among non-tobacco-using young adults8
Exposure to e-cigarette use in influencer videos and its association with e-cigarette use among adolescents in Germany8
What ifs: and what now?8
From social accessory to societal disapproval: smoking, social norms and tobacco endgames8
Tracking technology changes of e-cigarettes: characteristics and capabilities of new smart vape devices8
Association of food insecurity with the use of tobacco products and urine cotinine-measured smoking intensity: evidence from a population-based study in South Korea, 2019–20218
Sensory methods to evaluate perception of flavours in tobacco and other nicotine-containing products: a review7
Beware big tobacco bearing gifts: tobacco industry corporate social responsibility activities in Greece7
Prevalence, perceptions and factors associated with menthol cigarette smoking: findings from the ITC Kenya and Zambia Surveys7
Brand-switching and tobacco taxation in Vietnam7
Authority in tobacco control in Pacific Small Island Developing States: a qualitative study of multisectoral tobacco governance in Fiji and Vanuatu7
Electronic nicotine delivery systems in Nigeria: product types, flavours and nicotine content labels7
Ethics and ENDS7
JUUL and its ‘Action Network’ attempt to prevent a local flavour ban7
Corporate communication of the relative health risks of IQOS through a webchat service7
How might FDA fix this e-cigarette PMTA mess? Commentary on Glantz and Lempert and Meshnicket al7
Quasi-experimental evaluation of Kenya’s pictorial health warnings versus Zambia’s single text-only warning: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project7
Menthol versus non-menthol flavouring and switching to e-cigarettes in black and Latinx adult menthol combustible cigarette smokers: secondary analyses from a randomised clinical trial7
Effectiveness of ENDS, NRT and medication for smoking cessation among cigarette-only users: a longitudinal analysis of PATH Study wave 3 (2015–2016) and 4 (2016–2017), adult data7
Perceived effectiveness of four different cigarette health warning label themes among a sample of urban smokers and non-smokers in China7
Impact of IQOS modified risk messaging on physicians’ product perceptions and recommendations7
L&M’s foray into marketing ‘natural’ cigarettes7
How do New Zealand youth perceive the smoke-free generation policy? A qualitative analysis7
Willingness of tobacco farmers to accept compensation for tobacco crop substitution in Lichuan City, China7
Brief report on IQOS point-of-sale marketing, promotion and pricing in IQOS retail partner stores in Atlanta, Georgia, USA7
Trends in e-cigarette brands, devices and the nicotine profile of products used by youth in England, Canada and the USA: 2017–20197
Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) control policies: global analysis of available legislation and equity considerations7
Tobacco industry compliance with the EU track and tracing system in Lithuania7
Understanding the long-term policy influence strategies of the tobacco industry: two contemporary case studies7
Flavour loyalty may predict cessation or substitution following a cigarillo flavour ban among young adults in the USA7
What more evidence is needed? Remove menthol cigarettes from the marketplace—now7
European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD): current impact and future steps7
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